scampbell61 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:00 pm In 1942, my father enlisted in the US Army, served in Europe and then part of the occupation after the war. He purchased this watch in 1949 at the PX in Germany. The PX only received a few Rolexes every month and they sold out really fast. My father got the clerk to hold one of the watches until payday. The watch ended up costing a few dollars more than a Second Lieutenant’s pay at that time, so he had to borrow a few dollars from a friend in order to buy the Rolex.
My father wore this Rolex 6031 throughout the Korean War, to his retirement from the military in the late 60s and until he passed in 1989. He would have been 103 this month.
Now you know that I got my watch obsession honestly.
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